Depressive symptoms and oral mucositis in children with oncological diseases: a cross-sectional study.

The aim of this study was to investigate the correlation between depressive symptoms and the occurrence of oral mucositis in children with oncological diseases treated at a reference hospital. This was a cross-sectional study conducted with individuals aged 4 to 18 years, diagnosed with primary neoplasms. Data was collected by using a questionnaire that assessed the degree of oral mucositis according to the World Health Organization index, the risk of oral mucositis according to the Child's International Mucositis Evaluation Scale, and depressive symptoms using the Children's Depression Inventory.

Physical Violence Against Children and Adolescents in Porto: A 5-Year Study.

The aim of the present study was to analyze the prevalence of physical violence against children and adolescents (PVCA) in a 5-year period in the city of Porto, Portugal. All forensic reports between 2009 and 2013 in the clinical services of the North Branch of the National Institute of Legal Medicine and forensic sciences were analyzed. Victims were classified according to sex, age, relationship with perpetrator, traumatic consequences of the event, and year of occurrence.

A new "silver-bullet" to treat caries in children--nano silver fluoride: a randomised clinical trial.

Background: Untreated dental caries in children remains a public health challenge in poor communities.

Objectives: This prospective controlled clinical trial investigated the effectiveness of a new anti-caries agent, Nano Silver Fluoride (NSF), applied once a year to arrest caries in children.

Methods: One hundred thirty decayed primary teeth were randomly divided into two groups: NSF as the experimental agent and water as the control group.

Environmental conditions associated with shark attacks against humans: a case report about territoriality.

This article describes the autopsy findings of a victim of a shark attack that took place off the coast of Pernambuco, Brazil. The victim was rescued and immediately taken to a nearby hospital but did not survive, even though the lapse of time between the attack and verification of death did not exceed 15 minutes. The presence of a single, large, contused and incised, semiarched wound with a serrated aspect was decisive in elucidating the event.

Work-related musculoskeletal disorders among Brazilian dental students.

The aim of this analytical cross-sectional study was to evaluate the presence of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSD) among dental students in two Brazilian dental schools. The sample included 227 randomized subjects from fifth to ninth semesters who were developing clinical activities. Each student signed an informed consent form.

Dental trauma: an evidence-based approach to care.

Background: One of the key aspects of improving the dental care we offer to our patients is in basing our practice on the best available evidence.

Aim: The main purpose of this paper is to present some basic ways of searching reliable papers on Internet and to introduce some techniques to facilitate the development of strategic search skill to improve the quality of dental care, using dental trauma as an example.

Materials And Methods: After formulation of a clinical question on a dental trauma issue, a comparison was made between: data collected in PubMed using a given term; data collected in PubMed using the Medical Subject Headings vocabulary (Mesh) and data collected using the principles of evidence-based research, all by an independent researcher.

Relationship between oral health, nutrient intake and nutritional status in a sample of Brazilian elderly people.

Objective: To evaluate the relationship between the oral health condition, the nutrient intake and the body mass index (BMI) in elderly people.

Background: Impaired dentition has been associated with an inadequate consumption of key nutrients and with changes in nutritional status in elderly people.

Materials And Methods: The sample comprised 887 elderly people, aged 60 and over, of whom 816 underwent a clinical oral examination and were allocated into groups according to the numbers of teeth and number of posterior occluding pairs of natural teeth.

[Prevalence of malocclusion and its association with functional alterations of the stomatognathic system in schoolchildren].

The aim of this research was to estimate the prevalence of malocclusion among 12-year-old schoolchildren in Camaragibe, Pernambuco State, Brazil. Malocclusions were stratified by the degree of severity, and their association with alterations of the following functions was also analyzed: speech articulation, respiration, and deglutition. Occlusion was assessed by means of the Treatment Priority Index (TPI) and the functions referred to by means of the criteria used in routine clinical speech therapy by a single calibrated examiner (kappa values ranging from 0.

A systematic review of the diagnostic classifications of traumatic dental injuries.

A systematic review of the literature was undertaken to evaluate the criteria used for the diagnostic classification of traumatic dental injuries from an epidemiological standpoint. The methodology used was that suggested by the Cochrane Collaboration and the National Health Service. A total of 12 electronic bibliographical databases (BBO, BioMed Central, Blackwell Synergy, Cochrane, DARE, EMBASE, HighWire, LILACS, MEDLINE, PubMed Central, SciELO, SciSearch) and the World Wide Web were searched.

Risk factors related to traumatic dental injuries in Brazilian schoolchildren.

The aim of this pilot study was to analyse whether overjet, lip coverage and obesity represented risk factors associated with the occurrence of dental trauma in the permanent anterior teeth of schoolchildren in Recife, Brazil. It included a random sample of 116 boys and girls aged 12 years, attending both public and private schools. Data was collected through clinical examinations and interviews.